New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-18

talk 70 us and 70 this We consented. She he'd Just
told that he wa upstairs. When We esked 70 sse
not in tho house. but coming ct half.past D. IN
loss than halt minute heard heavy tread IN the
in u a ' beer key In more ways than one. he wore
glasses behind which buged his littls pg-Iike eyes
but by opening them ss wide as possible hs made
them s teamed f forward an3 TAKING
He spoke In such broken English that some tnngs
II was not possible to understand and ss We lound
formed of any Of the facts OF the case but knew
he must tell to pay before leaving. ne tnnuens
that had already been IN the house three monsns
without paying pfennig. Great vas his amaSement
when my cousin told HIM that We bad been there nve
days and had already paid one month IN advsnce
When he recovered himself he began to give US advice
about money alters Ven you travels dere Is cree
zings," said be- proposition one, procuring money
proposition two, getting money, and" bore ne raised
ting more money and so forth. baf travelled my
felf and knows vat it Is"
Then be observed that he was sure we must already
have money. This WAS shown In two ways-nrs~ We
were Americans and all Americans are rich ana
second, we we're travelling. and one must have money
TO travel. Then again he suggested that II 40 Iere
without money could eaeily borrow 1t from Englisn
people In Freiburg, we could telegraph homo Ior
It, All tho advice and suggestions we took IN Sence
or asqnesced With HI, oPluons isa.g n,m caIsa Ia
At last We decided to 90 to the bankers ana ieave
the deposit as the woman had suggested. Telling
them Of our decision, two OF us walked CT, like
culprts betweea the frauen and her advocate to the
bankers. The fraulen walked unplessantv nesr TO
me- and she and the advocate foied every attempt on
part to walk BY ourselves. suppose she thought
that might try to away. 1be advocate tried
to start rsation asking among other things,
how long we had been in Frelburg, how long we IN
tended to stay. where would go next, when we
had lett America, when intending to 60 back,
and il we had ever been In London Whether these
questions were asked with the intention OF being
friendly simply out OF national curiosity. DO not
know. Our replies not, am afraid, very RATS
factory tor when you being marched Oh like
prisoners you do not feel like conversng pleasantly
with your keepers. The only remark which the tran.
lem made was that she hoped that We would not
make any disturbance in the bank, tor many people
there AMI it would be unpleasant. 1t Is tor
your god say It, Mademoselle."
In three minutes we're at the bank and our
troubles seemed to he over tor found that the
young banker, who smoke English perfectly. was
gentleman. aud he did everything In his power to
help u.s. doubt if the fraulein liked our having all
the papers made out carefully Ii we had had any
faith in tie veIacity OF the woman 1t vas dspeled
when upon the bankers asking how be should make
out the receipt u.s. referred HIM the case OF
Mrs. Brown, he said that be had never made out
any such papers before tor the frauleIn.
Poor woman ! Tho should have paid dearly for tue
absoutOn of her sins which she was obliged to COM
nit account. And perhaps, after all, her rea
son Tor wanting us to stay in her house the whole
three months was not a mercenary oDe Dut because
she thought she would have opportunity for convert
ing five heretics to the true faith.